NY Times Spikes ‘Fetus’ as Today’s Wordle Answer
thewrap.comSupreme Court draft decision leak that freshly inflamed our already boiling-over national discourse over abortion rights, the Wordle answer for Monday, May 9 was scheduled to be “fetus.”That plan was, uhhh – halted.Before players cracked open their Wordle challenge for Monday morning, The New York Times staff that runs the mobile game scrambled to change today’s answer to something less topical (no, we won’t tell you what the new answer is).
While the paper managed to make the swap in time, some users who hadn’t refreshed their screens were likely to see the old clue.In a note from the Times – which took over the popular game a few months ago – Games editor Everdeen Mason said: “Some users may see an outdated answer that seems closely connected to a major recent news event,” Mason wrote.
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